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All experts agree that introducing bison into Spain is a bad idea. And yet we’re doing it

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Nine European bison have been grazing for four months in the Guadalajara municipality of El Recuenco, in the heart of the Alto Tajo. And the only really relevant question is why. I mean, we know why. They are there because the Rewilding Spain foundation and the town council itself have placed them in what has become the first case of bison in public forests in Spain. In fact, as long as we pay attention to what its promoters say, it is not only a renaturalization initiative, it is “a tool against forest fires.” The thing is, none of that explains why anyone thinks any of this makes sense. There have never (as far as we know) been European bison in Spain. Yes, yes. I know that one of the most iconic Spanish images is that of the painted bison of Altamira, but that animal was not a Bison bonasuswas a Bison priscus. A species that became extinct 9,000 years ago just when the habitat (the mammoth steppe) that welcomed it did. There is no conclusive paleontological evidence to say that there was ever a European bison on the peninsula. In fact, in 2020, MITECO commissioned a report that unanimously denied that this animal could be defined as an “extinct species in Spain”. Does that mean that it is proven that there was not? No, one thing does not imply the other. At any time we can find remote proof that there were. In fact, in February 2026 was announced that a skeleton about 4,000 years old had been found in Navarra that could be from a Bison bonasus. It is a matter of time before a genetic test confirms it (or not). Be that as it may, no one seems to care: the nine bison are in Guadalajara. And there are up to two doctoral theses that will examine fecal samples, stress levels and diet to study the adaptability of these animals and their effect on vegetation. The latter is interesting because, as I said, the second objective of all this has to do with vegetation. With its control and management. There it is, despite the skepticism of many expertswhere there may be a future. But it is not a simple future. To begin with, because the species cannot be the subject of an official reintroduction program. The nine specimens from El Recuenco (and the other 160 in the country) are not protected wildlife, but are classified as livestock or zoological nucleus. This requires them to be controlled, geolocated and monitored. But, above all, that forces us to ask ourselves many things and “do we have any capacity to control our country?” It is perhaps the most important. For years, people have been releasing beavers into the main Spanish rivers without anything happening. What’s more, in Spain have been detected more than 200 invasive species. The debate is not ‘bison yes or bison no’. Above all, because it is not a strictly Spanish debate. The United Kingdom reintroduced bison to Kent, the Netherlands did it decades ago… European rewilding is being done, to a large extent, outside the usual channels of conservation. And El Recuenco is just the local version of a deeper debate: that of what nature we want to exist in the future. Image | Oskar Jablonski In Xataka | We are reforesting Europe with trees that will not survive by 2100. If pests don’t kill them, climate change will.

1,800 years ago the Romans had an amulet against bad luck. It was literally a tiny penis.

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Measures about three centimetersis cast in bronze with great detail (anatomical) and despite being around 1,800 years old, it is surprisingly well preserved. We talk about a phallus. A penis. An ancient figurine representing male genitalia that archaeologists have just unearthed in a roman site from Cumbria, in the northwest of England. The most curious thing, however, is not the appearance of the penile statuette itself. But that it took so long for researchers to find it. We explain ourselves. Under a cricket pitch. He Carlisle Cricket Club is a large resort for cricket lovers located on the outskirts of the town of Carlise, in Cumbria, England. That’s today, of course. If we go back almost 20 centuries to that same land, located on the banks of the eden riverwelcomed some hot springs where the Romans came to chat and relax. Years ago a group of archaeologists started investigating in the area to search for remains of that remote Roman past. Among the many things they recovered at the site, in addition to ceramics, fragments of pillars and heads sculpted in stone, there is one that has attracted attention: a penis. What do you mean, a penis? The figurine in question revealed it a few weeks ago the photographer Pete Savin in And archaeologists believe that the piece has some 1,800 years. It would be logical to think that Savin or the director of the site, Frank Giecco, raised their eyebrows when they encountered such a discovery. However, the opposite happened: what had surprised them for some time was not finding any phallic figurines among the Roman ruins of Carlisle. “It is unusual that we have not found a phallus-shaped object at the site before, as it is very rich in other types of objects,” admits Giecco to the BBC. Don’t say penis… No, say best amuletwhich is the function fulfilled by the figurine found in Cumbria. The researchers they are convinced that its purpose was not to simply represent a penis and the piece did not have an obscene or sexual nature either. It was not even a symbol of fertility. At least that wasn’t his main goal. For the Romans the device surely acted as a talismana protective tool designed to attract good luck and ward off the evil eye. The Romans were so convinced of the healing power of these phallic representations that they frequently resorted to them, either by capturing them in figurines that they would then hang from their belts and use as jewelry or by carving them on the walls. Click on the image to go to the tweet. A phallus for the collection. The truth is that you have to take a quick look through the newspaper archive to see that discoveries like the one in Cumbria are relatively frequent. Even in England. Or in Cumbria itself. In 2019 a group of archaeologists from the University of Newcastle cataloged there several inscriptions left by Roman soldiers in a quarry near Hadrian’s Wall, a series of ‘graffiti’ drawn on the rock in 207 AD and including (exactly!) the relief of a phallus. Last year another team focused on Vindolandaone of the Roman forts that protected Hadrian’s Wall, encountered another similar surprise. During their excavations they located a penis-shaped pendant hidden among the challenges of a wall from the 4th AD. Archaeologists speculate that the piece, made of jet, was lost at the beginning of that same century. And given how polished its surface is, they believe that the owner of the amulet handled it frequently. Small, big, huge. Carlise’s piece barely exceeds three centimeters and Vindolanda’s (at least for the photos shared by researchers) appears even smaller. However, not all representations were so minuscule. In 2022, while investigating a site in the province of Córdoba, archaeologists discovered a bas-relief that shows a 45 centimeter phallus long. The figure was carved directly on the cornerstone of a large building, another relatively common habit. “It was common to place them on the facades of houses and soldiers wore small phallic amulets as symbols of virility,” explains to The Country Andrés Rodlán, director of the project, although he also recognizes that Córdoba engraving breaks the mold. “This one is unusually large.” The list of phallic representations found in recent years goes on and on, with discoveries stretching from the distant lands of Britannia. to Omritin Israel. Why this obsession? The experts believe that phallic figures were so popular not because of their explicit nature, but because of their enormous load of meanings. Whoever carried a figurine of a penis or decided to sculpt it on their wall did not simply intend to show a male genital. He sought to protect himself with an amulet capable of warding off the evil eye. In fact, they not only surrounded themselves with images of more or less anatomically accurate penises. They also created figurines of winged phalluseswith animal shapes or with bells. “Phallic emblems are found on a wide variety of Roman objects, from amulets and frescoes to mosaics and lamps. They were symbols intended to attract good luck and ward off evil spirits. As the ancient author Pliny attests, even babies and soldiers wore such amulets to invoke divine protection,” they explain from the MET Museum. The reality is that, if history has shown anything, it is that humanity has always shown a fascinating inclination to represent penises everywhere. Images | The MET Museum and Carole Radatto (Flickr) In Xataka | Almost 2,000 years ago a Celtiberian soldier visited the most remote frontier of the Roman Empire. Then he returned to Soria with a souvenir

It’s bad news for Google

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If the question is which AI makes better images, the general answer would be Google’s Nano Banana 2. And if we talk about preparing reports rigorously, we would probably say that Claude is the one who takes the lead. But in the AI ​​race, just as important as being the best is appearing to be the best. And above all, make money with your model. And if the arrival of artificial intelligence to the labor market has felt like an earthquake in the shape of more or less related layoffs, barriers to entry to junior profiles and have to work more Against all odds, the reality is that in recent months the scenario of which AI is the favorite of companies has taken a turn. Visual Capitalist has published a graph that monitors month by month from January 2023 to March 2026 what percentage of US companies pay for each provider’s models. To prepare it, they used anonymized spending data from more than 50,000 companies on the platform. ramptaking only paid subscriptions, so free use is left out. The result is a clear picture of consolidation: the market is shrinking towards very few players at breakneck speed. The graph marks a clear winner from the start: OpenAI is the most widespread payment AI provider among US companies, reaching a share of 35.2% in March of this year. Just behind is Anthropic with a share of 30.6%. You have to look down a lot to find the others: Google, xAI and the rest of the providers are below 5%. But the most important thing when looking at the photo is not who the leader is but the trend: Anthropic’s is a meteoric rise. What AI model are companies paying for? The market closes and It only has room for two: OpenAI and Anthropic together account for nearly 66% of the AI ​​business payment market in the United States, meaning that two out of every three dollars that companies spend on AI models go to these two companies. The rest share the crumbs. This type of concentration is the fish that bites its tail: leading companies have more customers, more usage data and more resources to improve their products, so their pursuers have it increasingly difficult, although it is true that Google has muscle for a while. What AI models are companies paying for? Visual Capitalist with Ramp data January 2025 is a key date in the graph: OpenAI was present in 16.8% of companies and Anthropic barely had 4.1%, slightly below Google’s 4.2% share. In 14 months Anthropic has multiplied its presence sevenfold, while OpenAI has doubled it and Google has 4.3%. The takeoff coincides with the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, its scheduling assistant that became general availability in May of that year, and accelerates with the arrival of Cowork in January 2026, its workflow platform. That Claude be a rocket The graph has several explanations. Yes, it’s a good AI model, but Anthropic has been able to build concrete tools around that model that companies use every day and that make it difficult to switch vendors. According to Sacra estimatesas of October 2025, Anthropic had more than 300,000 business clients that represented approximately 80% of its revenue, which shows that those at Amodei were clear about their strategy from the beginning: their niche is the company and not so much the ordinary user. Google has been oscillating between 3 and 4.5% in business share for three years, a marginal advance compared to the budding duopoly and the investment made. Elon Musk’s xAI has gone from zero to 1.9% in March 2026, which means appearing on the map, but still very far from the competition. But the case of Google is the one that truly baffles: It has cutting-edge technology, one of the most powerful cloud infrastructures in the world and access to an amount of data like never before, but it doesn’t get companies to open their wallets. Everything indicates that the problem is in how it has packaged its products: dispersed among too many brands and platforms, which creates real confusion for the business customer. In Xataka | If the question is which of the big tech companies is winning the AI ​​race, the answer is: none In Xataka | The US’s problem in the AI ​​and humanoid race is not China: it is all of Asia and it is greatly disadvantaged Cover | Visual Capitalist

Mistral has a new AI model. The good news is that it is absolutely European; the bad one, which is absolutely mediocre

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The French startup Mistral has just launched Mistral Medium 3.5an open-weight AI model that is the great European exponent in an industry absolutely dominated by China—which competes directly with this type of projects—and by the US. And if this is the best they can do, it seems Europe has a problem. Mediocre. This is a “dense” model with 128 billion parameters and a context window of 256,000 tokens. While models with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture only activate a subset of the total parameters to achieve enviable efficiency and capacity, Mistral activates them all. That makes it much less efficient, but theoretically it should make its performance promising. And that’s the problem. Which it is not. Benchmarks. Pedro Domingos, professor of deep learning at the University of Washington, he expressed it very well: “Mainstream AI companies brag about how their model is much better in benchmarks. Soo Mistral brags about how their model is much worse.” It is true that the models with which it is compared are larger in total number of parameters, but as we will see later, even taking that into account, they are cheaper and theoretically more efficient thanks to the use of that MoE architecture in many of them. The model, however, unifies the previous catalog and follows the market trend of being able to establish the desired level of reasoning (reasoning_effort) as a parameter. Bad results. And he is somewhat right: Mistral does not seem to have problems showing the results of various benchmarks in which it performs poorly, but it also performs poorly with models that are by no means the most recent or powerful on the market. Thus, it is compared with Claude Sonnet 4.5/4.6, with Kimi K2.5, with GLM-5.1 or with Qwen 3.5 397B. In almost all cases (except GLM 5.1) there are already more recent and powerful versions of all of them. Not so far from local models. In fact Medium 3.5 scored 77.6% in SWE-Bench Verified, a programming test in which Qwen3.6-27b It reaches 72.4% with a fundamental difference: you can run it “for free” (with the appropriate hardware, and you paying the electricity bill) with a relatively affordable machine. More expensive (and somewhat more restrictive). If we use it via API, Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.5 per million output tokens. GLM-5.1 costs 1.4/4.4 respectively, and Kimi K2.5 costs 0.5/2.8 respectively. Its recent successor, Kimi K2.6, costs 0.95/4, and it is significantly better than Mistral being cheaper. There is a curious fact: Mistral uses a “modified MIT license” instead of the traditional Apache 2.0, and indicates that this model can be used commercially or non-commercially except for “high-income” companies. Chasing Anthropic. In addition to the model itself, the company has presented the so-called remote scheduling agents using Mistral Vibe CLI to, for example, send pull requests to GitHub in an automated way. It also has the so-called “Work Mode” in LeChat, allowing multi-step tasks to be managed autonomously. These are tools clearly intended to strengthen Mistral’s role as a base for scheduling agents, which is the path that has worked fantastically for Anthropic. Your advantage: being European. The only great strength of this model is that it has been developed by a European startup, and that gives it clear visibility at a time when many EU countries they talk about digital sovereignty. It is the only Western model that seems to want to compete with China in the field of open weight models, which is good news, but the truth is that in terms of performance it does not seem that the Mistral Medium 3.5 is going to perform competitively. The geopolitical security network. That, together with the fact that it costs more than its competitors, makes the decision to use it difficult unless for those who prioritize clearly that European origin. That is Mistral’s ace in the hole, and they are taking advantage of perfectly. The company has recently obtained financing to create data centers in Europe, and is nourished and fed by this new obsession with minimize dependency of North American Big Tech. In Xataka | The CEO of Mistral sends a message to Europe: the end of being the technological vassal of the United States

Two tourists from the US decided to free the lobsters from a bar in Italy. Environmentalists think it was a bad decision.

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In theory it was going to be a nice gesture, a kind of performance improvised idea with which to give an emotional touch to a holiday in the Mediterranean, but it has ended up becoming a blunder. A few days ago, while eating at a restaurant in Campania (Italy), two American tourists decided to rescue the dozen lobsters that were swimming in the local aquarium. They paid for them. They put them in a basin. They got into a taxi. And they traveled to a Tyrrhenian beach, where they released the crustaceans. Everything was fantastic if it weren’t for one small detail: what they did could be an environmental crime. Now they risk paying a considerable fine. The saying goes that hell is paved with good intentions. In the waters of the Tyrrhenian, Italy, good intentions have caused something else: a illegal release of lobsters. The event occurred a few days ago, when two tourists from Texas (mother and daughter) decided to crown their vacation in Naples with something that at first seemed an altruistic gesture: Pay for a dozen crustaceans condemned to die in a kitchen and then release them into the sea. Altruistic gesture or environmental crime? To understand the story you have to travel to the Mercato Pompeiano restaurant, in Campania, where a few days ago two Americans decided to try the local cuisine. So far nothing strange. The surprise came when they asked the waiter to sell them the dozen lobsters that were swimming in the aquarium, the typical display where customers can choose the seafood they want to be cooked for them. Their intention was not to feast on crustaceans, but to put the animals in a basin to release them into the sea. It was the daughter herself who was in charge of ‘fishing’ them out of the pond with a small net. Then, to the astonishment of the restaurant owners, the two tourists got into a taxi and traveled to the nearby beach of Castellammare di Stabia. Once there, the daughter rolled up her sleeves, approached the coastline where the waves were breaking, and went releasing one by one the lobsters that until recently looked at the diners of the Mercato Pompeiano with tongs held with ribbons. You don’t have to imagine it. The scene can be seen because the tourists themselves were in charge of recording everything in a video that has ended up going viral. In it you can see the daughter with the water up to her ankles, releasing the lobsters, while the mother immortalizes the scene with her cell phone. Some Italian media they need who were accompanied by a guide. “We want to take this memory to the United States. It has been beautiful, we are happy,” explains the mother, proud. The couple even sent a message to the restaurant owner. “Even if they only live a few more days, it was worth it. My mother has always wanted to do this when we saw lobsters in restaurants, but until now it has never been possible.” The video of the release soon spread like wildfire on social networks, where it provoked opposing reactions. There are those who applaud the gesture for its altruism. And there are those who consider it a nonsense with serious environmental consequences. @la.repubblica Have bought all the things that were in the restaurant’s aquarium. Salvandololi from the death and from the destiny indicated by the end of the meals in the menu. Due to Texan tourists arriving at Pompei from Texas, they are very happy to join the spiaggia of Castellammare di Stabia and have not been liberated in the sea. Terminata la missione salvezza hanno sent a message in English to the owner of the ristorante: “Grazie per avercelo permesso, se anche vivranno qualche giorno in più ne è valsa la pena. Mia mamma avrebbe semper voluto farlo quando abbiamo viewed le aragoste nei ristoranti, ma non è stato mai possibile.” Il fuoriprogramma nato quasi percaso, quanto le due Americane touriste hanno gli glistici nuotare nell’acquario accanto al tavolo dove era sedute a mangiare. This is the time to turn on one at a time with the light used in the chambers of the premises, fishing from the aquarium with per insertion in safety. Tutto ripreso con il cellulare dalla mamma: “Vogliamo porre a casa negli Usa il ricordo di questo avvenimento. È stato bello, siamo felici. Abbiamo regalato loro una ultima possibilità.” by Mariella Parmendola ♬ original audio – la.repubblica The reason? To the untrained eye, perhaps all lobsters look the same, but that is not the case. In the recording it can be seen that the lobsters that the tourists released into the waters of the Tyrrhenian are of the species Homarus americanus (American or Canadian), native to the northwest Atlantic and characterized by the brown tones of its shell, very different from the bluish color that usually identifies the European lobster. It is no surprise because the American variety is usually the one used by restaurants in the region. That small detail is important because in practice the Homarus americanus is considered an invasive species in the Mediterranean. Not only that. Animal releases, even if only a dozen specimens, as occurred in Castellammare di Stabia, require studies and careful prior planning. First because introducing species can alter the balance of ecosystems. Second, because it is not unusual for loose specimens to carry parasites or diseases that are lethal to the native fauna. As if the above were not enough, there are experts who warn that the lobsters released by the American tourists probably did not live much longer than they would have lasted in the restaurant’s aquarium. The reason? The water in the pond was probably kept at a lower temperature than that found on the beach of Castellammare di Stabia, so it is not unreasonable that they suffered. a lethal thermal shock. The worst of all is not that both tourists have found themselves involved in a bitter … Read more

DeepSeek V4 is here. It’s good news for efficiency and bad news for the myth

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DeepSeek has published its V4 model under MIT license, with notable improvements in code and architecture designed for Chinese chips. It has also admitted, in its own technical report, that it is three to six months behind leading Western models. For a laboratory that A little over a year ago the global narrative of AI changedthat is much more than a nuance. Why is it important. DeepSeek became a symbol in January 2025. Its moment shook the markets, questioned the logic of the American technology stock market and convinced half the world that China could compete head-to-head on the frontier of AI, at a fraction of the cost. It’s not that V4 destroys that story, but it does complicate it a bit. China’s most important laboratory in AI arrives with a model that its own engineers describe as a step, not a leap. The context. V4 has taken longer than expected to arrive. According to sector sources collected for 36KrDeepSeek suffered a serious training failure in mid-2025 while trying to migrate its infrastructure from NVIDIA to Huawei’s Ascend chips. Internal opinions on technical direction were not aligned, and the founder, Liang Wenfengimposed conditions that were difficult to execute. The result: months of delay and a model that, furthermore, is still not multimodal, postponed due to lack of computing capacity and cash. Between the lines. The most interesting thing about V4 is in its architecture. The model introduces TileLang, a domain-specific language that allows low-level code to be decoupled from CUDA (the NVIDIA standard) and compile it for different chips. It also incorporates MegaMoE, a kernel designed to reduce latency in expert parallelism that already runs on Ascend hardware. But V4 training has continued using NVIDIA GPUs. Independence is, for the moment, more of an aspiration than an accomplished fact. turning point. While DeepSeek looked inward, the Chinese market has been reorganizing itself without it: Doubaofrom ByteDance, has become the most downloaded chatbot in China. MiniMax and Z.ai They have gone public. Alibaba has achieved great adoption thanks to vertical applications. DeepSeek never wanted to build a consumer product, and the market hasn’t waited for it. The internal bill has also arrived: the laboratory has lost key talent to Tencent, ByteDance and Xiaomi in practically all areas. Liang Wenfeng refused to give up 20% to an unidentified large investor. And now, for the first time, DeepSeek opens an external funding round. Main loser? The narrative of open source Chinese as a real alternative to the Western closed model has taken a hit. A Qwen employee has told 36Kr that “the golden age of nonprofit AI development is over.” The big question. It’s whether DeepSeek can regain lost ground. That depends largely on Huawei, whose Ascend 950 promises to scale well with V4, but 750,000 units are equivalent, adjusted for quality, to a week of American production. The gap is not closed with ingenious architectures. It is closed with silicon. In Xataka | Companies around the world face an irresolvable dilemma: either they are with China or with the US, with both it is no longer possible Featured image | Solen Feyissa

Are we the bad guys in the movie?

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In the ‘Lord of the Rings’ universe, a palantir is the seer stone that Saruman uses to communicate with Sauron. The fact of having chosen this name for a company that is dedicated to mass surveillance It was already a declaration of intentions. After years of doing ethically questionable work, some employees are now beginning to wonder if they are the bad guys in the movie. Friends, realize. What is happening. They tell it in Wired. Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, Palantir has become a key player in the government’s anti-immigration policy. The company has signed contracts with ICE and its technology makes it possible to identify and deport immigrants in an irregular situation. In addition, it has been used in military operations such as the Iran war, in which a bombing that killed more than 100 children. This has caused an internal crisis, with some current and former employees concerned that the company has gone from “preventing abuse” to directly encouraging it. Why it is important. Palantir was founded after the 9/11 attacks, a context in which citizen surveillance was justified under the narrative of antiterrorism. Now, Palantir’s technology is being used to surveil its own citizens and is key in attacks that have resulted in fatalities. It’s not that they were little sisters of charity before, but lines are being crossed that are too red even for those who defended them. lin response to the company. Employee criticism began after the murder of Alex Pretti at the beginning of the year. Within a Slack channel, some employees began to question the company’s relationship with ICE. “In my opinion, ICE are the bad guys. I’m not proud that the company I enjoy working for so much is part of this,” one of them commented. Palantir responded by deleting the messages several days later, supposedly to prevent leaks. At the same time, the company began to organize question and answer sessions to address any doubts that may arise, as well as the possibility of learning more details under confidentiality contracts. For many employees this was an attempt to silence criticism rather than address it. The ideological turn. Alex Karp, CEO and co-founder of Palantir, He used to define himself as a socialist and defended Democratic candidates like Joe Biden. However, since 2024 he has become a key ally of Trump and his speech defends authoritarian policies. A few days ago he published a 22 point manifesto in X which has unleashed a wave of criticism for its nationalist and militarized ideas. This text also sparked a conversation on Slack, in which several employees were embarrassed that it had been published using the company’s official account and that several acquaintances had asked them about it. It will be yes. It is the short answer to the question that employees ask themselves and there are many indications that they are, indeed, the bad guys. They count in The Country that the company accumulates many accusations for not respecting human rights. Already in 2020 I warned him Amnesty International and the consulting firm MSCI gave it a score of 2 out of 10 in civil liberties. Peter Thiel, its founder, says openly who does not believe that “freedom and democracy are compatible.” What is striking is that, knowing the history of the company and the authoritarian ideas of its leaders, there are employees who still have doubts. In Xataka | Wall Street’s riskiest bet has its own name: Palantir, a castle in the air supported by AI promises

AI enters the era of CPUs. To no one’s surprise, this is bad news for the consumer.

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The current state of data centers is redefining the production lines of the main technological players. What seemed like a specific crisis in the price of RAM and SSDs has ended up becoming a tsunami that is sweeping away products and the consumer market. The data centers They need the same components as consumers and the rest of the industry, and there was one component that seemed safe: the processors. It’s over. Danger! During his presentation of results In the first quarter of 2026, Intel gave a worrying piece of information: the ratio of CPUs and GPUs in data centers could soon reach 1:1. So far, we’ve talked about memory and GPUs as the primary hardware in data centers, but there needs to be a CPU running the show, and currently, there was one CPU for every eight GPUs. However, things are starting to change due to agentic AI. How to know the components of your PC (RAM, Graphics, CPU…) and the state they are in Training is still important, but now we seem to be entering the era of inference, and that’s where CPUs excel. David Zinsner, Intel’s chief financial officer, described in the call with investors that the CPU/GPU ratio had already gone from 1:8 to 1:4 (one CPU for every four GPUs), but that this agentic AI was exploding the memory of the CPUs, approaching the aforementioned 1:1. Change of course. I think you can now anticipate where the shots are going to go. As we read in Tom’s Hardwarethis action has caused a reaction: that Intel begins to move its production lines to begin to reduce its capacity in consumer products and increase the output of Xeon processors, which are indicated for servers and continuous work. All because, currently, delivery times for server CPUs are about six months away and they cannot allow AMD, which also has its products for servers, to beat them in that race. Consequences. Price increases. Without palliatives. Xeon CPU prices are estimated to have risen in March by 10% to 20% due to that shortage, but consumer CPUs have also increased in price by 5% to 10%. It is not going to stop there, as another 10% price increase is expected for the second half of the year. In fact, it is the same as with mobile phones, with Intel pointing out that the consumer PC market will decrease by double digits this year. Here it happens as in the rest of the segments: manufacturers are raising prices for everyone (hyperscalers and consumers), but they allocate their production to data centers because they are the ones that will buy the most volume from them. Intel doesn’t care if there is no CPU for users because it is not the bulk of its current market, but what it cannot afford is to have hyperscalers for more than six months expectingespecially if data centers are expected to have to mount more CPUs in the short term. The objective: the great foundry. Intel has been in the doldrums for a few years. In the consumer segment, AMD’s Ryzens have beaten them to the punch, the ARC GPUs have not finished coming together and things were not going well. A series of poor results led the United States government to invest $2 billion to ‘rescue’ the company with one goal: to make it the largest American foundry. Because, even if things did not go well, they are still one of the few companies in the world with the capacity to create chips, like TSMC or Samsung. They have some of the best machines on the market and that government bailout soon began to bear fruit with clients such as Apple and Nvidia. During the presentation of results A few days ago, Intel declared a net loss of $3.7 billion, but something happened nonetheless: the stock rose 20%. The reason is that investors are not looking at Intel’s present, but rather its future, and the changes applied in recent months seem to be going in the right direction. They are not the only ones. This change of direction and production lines is not exclusive to Intel. We have seen it in other companies, but it is true that here they directly advocate leaving out the consumer to prioritize the large customer: Big Tech. Something similar happened with Samsung a few days ago, when it was reported that the company had begun to move your LPDDR4 memory production lines to LPDDR5. This type of memory is better, but also more expensive, which will cause devices that previously mounted LPDDR4 memory (low-end miniPC or entry- and mid-range mobile phones) to have to go directly for LPDDR5 memory that is faster, but also more expensive. In the end, the translation is the same as always: as users, we are going to have to tighten our belts and hold on with the devices we have for a while longer. How long? Until 2027 if you ask some, 2028 if you ask others or if that… 2030. Images | Intel In Xataka | There is no energy for so many data centers and the consequence is clear: half of those planned for 2026 in the US are in danger

We have been using the excuse of hunger for years to justify our bad mood. Science has just proven us right

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There are people who when they are hungry seem to completely lose control and jump at the slightest, making it difficult to approach them. And it is not a lack of patience for waiting for lunch or dinner, nor is it a personality trait, but rather It’s pure biology. Here society has even given it a name to explain this phenomenon that relates quick anger to the desire to eat: ‘Hangry‘, a fusion between hungry (hungry in English) and angry (angry in English). The definitive experiment. Although this attitude has been internalized in society as a personality trait, like someone who wakes up and can’t have a conversation, science has a lot to say. Specifically, a study published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2022 continued to 64 adults for 21 days to see what happened. Using an app, participants recorded their levels of hunger, anger, irritability, pleasure and arousal five times a day, accumulating more than 9,100 observations. And here the results, the truth is, were devastating: being hungry was directly associated with negative emotions, such as anger or being irascible. A great anger. If we go into detail, the feeling of hunger It was able to explain 34% of the cases of anger, 37% of the cases of irritability and also a 38% drop in the feeling of pleasure. But the most important thing is that this correlation remained firm even after scientists controlled for variables such as age, sex, weight, or even personality traits when not hungry. Because? The answer to these mood changes seems to lie specifically in what we need to ingest: glucose. And it makes a lot of sense, because this carbohydrate acts as the main fuel for our brain and its scarcity generates a true energy crisis that forces the body to draw energy from other places, such as ketone bodies. The brain here is a really demanding organ, since, although it only represents 2% of the body weight, it consumes around 20% of the energy, and in these situations it is noticeable. And it is proven. Without going any further, a study published in 2014 analyzed 107 couples for 21 days, measuring their blood glucose and measuring aggression. The best thing is that they quantified it with a voodoo doll that represented their partner and a pin cushion. From here it was seen that the lower the glucose levels were at the end of the day, the more pins were stuck in the doll. The conclusion seemed very clear: glucose acts as the “fuel of self-control.” Without it, the prefrontal cortex, which is in charge of regulating impulses, loses its ability to stop the amygdala, which is the center of primitive and less rational emotions. What happens. When the brain detects this lack of “fuel”, it does not interpret it as “the restaurant reservation has been delayed”, but as a vital threat that there is a lack of food in the environment. That is why to compensate, the adrenal glands release both cortisol and adrenaline, which are involved in the stress situation. Logically, an increase in these hormones generates irritability that is typical of hypoglycemia. Although if we go further, there are studies that suggest that the brain, in emergency situations such as hunger, prioritizes survival over patience or social courtesy, making us ‘jump’ at any interaction. The good news. Here, being aware of what is happening to us and that it is related to hunger is the most valuable thing to avoid getting angry with our partner or friend. Logically, this makes the brain understand that it is not in the middle of the jungle and that it needs to look for food as soon as possible, but it will only delay a little returning to the glucose levels to which it is accustomed. Images | freepik In Xataka | We thought that quenching hunger with Ozempic was the definitive remedy against obesity. Until we look at the muscle

The oceans are smoking and the bad news is that that phrase is starting to stop being a metaphor

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Global sea surface temperature is once again approaching 2024 records, Arctic ice marks its historic winter minimum and the average temperature is 1.43 degrees above pre-industrial levels. What’s more, the Earth’s energy imbalance has reached its highest level in 65 years. And all of this without El Niño being active. So I have to correct myself: what is happening is not that the sea is smoking. That’s a huge understatement. What happens is that the oceans have gone up a notch and we are completely caught out of the game. What is happening? According to Copernicus dataIn March, the global average temperature was 13.94 degrees. That is 0.53 above the 1991-2020 average and 1.48 above the pre-industrial temperature. It’s not the warmest March on record, but it’s close. In contrast, February 2026 was one of the three coldest in the last 14 years. And it’s curious because, anyway, we are in ENSO-Neutral conditions. The 2024 record was reached with El Niño pumping heat from the Pacific; Now we are in the most absolute normality. That does have experts from half the world worried. And the sea? In the sea things are more complicated because the surface temperature is very close to lrecord ace of 2024. Furthermore, it is not a question of a specific rebound: it is the result of a sustained rise throughout the entire month of March. There are specific areas (subtropical and northeastern North Atlantic, North and South Pacific) that are already at record values; The big question is what will happen at the end of the year and, above all, at the beginning of the year when El Niño is at its highest peak of intensity. Well, but this doesn’t affect us much, right? It depends on what we mean by ‘affect’, of course. What there is no doubt is that, despite the fact that temperatures are rising around the world, the Mediterranean has become the great laboratory for all detected and undetected climate risks. After all, Mare Nostrum heats up to 20% faster than the global average. And that has clear and direct consequences for water: from the mass extinction of vertebrates to the decline of grasslands to an enormous mortality of fish. Is a sea dying little by little; a sea that drags us with it: because the heat of the Mediterranean injects more water vapor and fuels extreme precipitation phenomena. The DANA of Valencia It’s a reminder of all this.. That is, the scenario is known. What remains is to see what we do to prepare for it. Images | BenBaso | Xataka In Xataka | Something strange has happened in the stratospheric polar vortex. And it is a hint of the winter that awaits Spain

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